Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
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Ella Minnow Pea
A Novel in Letters

Author: Mark Dunn

Narrator: Lauren Ezzo, Renata Friedman, Michael Crouch, Sara Morsey

Unabridged: 4 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/28/2021


Synopsis

A hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is "a love letter to alphabetarians and logomaniacs everywhere" (Myla Goldberg, bestselling author of Bee Season).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Regina on April 25, 2021

Get this - Ella Minnow Pea is “a novel in letters,” and there is a clever double meaning there. 1. The story unfolds in the epistolary format, so the plot moves along through letters exchanged by the characters. 2. It is "progressively lipogrammatic.” As you read along, more and more letters of the......more

Goodreads review by Susan's Reviews on November 07, 2021

Very funny but also very topical: what happens when those in charge curtail civil rights such as freedom of speech and impose ridiculous penalties that do not fit the "crime". I was laughing out loud towards the end, when there were so few letters left in the alphabet that could still legally be use......more

Goodreads review by Kate on January 01, 2008

I found this book at the Wilderness Library and very nearly didn't buy it. Just looking at the title, the words didn't exactly compute and I thought, "hmmm, this book seems kind of silly." Then I read "A Novel in Letters" and my shameless snoop side came out. I love, love, love reading books that ar......more


Quotes

“There’s the whiff of a classic about Ella Minnow Pea.” —The Christian Science Monitor

“A love letter to alphabetarians and logomaniacs everywhere.” —Myla Goldberg

“A curiously compelling . . . satire of human foibles, and a light-stepping commentary on censorship and totalitarianism.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

“This exceptional, zany book will quickly make you laugh.” —Dallas Morning Herald